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Modelling prevalence of a condition: chronic graft-versus-host disease after bone marrow transplantation

✍ Scribed by David Couper; Margaret Sullivan Pepe

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
270 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0277-6715

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✦ Synopsis

A variety of estimators have been proposed for modelling how the proportion of patients with a transient condition varies over time. In this paper we compare these estimators qualitatively and quantitatively and introduce a new estimator based on a generalized additive model (GAM). The assumptions on which the various estimators are based are discussed. Using simulations we compare their performances and investigate their robustness to departures from the assumptions. The GAM estimator is the only one which can incorporate covariate information. Even when estimating a single prevalence function without any covariate information the GAM estimator is seen to be preferable as long as the censoring mechanism is random censoring. The GAM prevalence estimator is applied to data on chronic graft-versus-host disease following bone marrow transplantation.

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